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Mumballup, Western Australia

Mumballup is a locality in the South West region of Western Australia, situated between Collie and Boyup Brook, south of Perth. The town is in the Shire of Donnybrook-Balingup.

It was the location of the death of the former premier of Western Australia James Mitchell in 1951, on a train on the Donnybrook–Katanning railway line. Mumballup was once a siding on the Donnybrook–Katanning railway but the railway line ceased operation in 1982. The Mumballup siding, which opened in 1908, was closed in 1980.

It is a location on the Bibbulmun Track.

Mumballup and the Shire of Donnybrook–Balingup are located on the traditional land of the Wardandi people of the Noongar nation.

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